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Category: Mentors/Guest Artists

Tamara Winters – 2021 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Tamara Winters (BFA Performance/Honors Tutorial College 2004) is the Associate Artistic Director of Know Theatre of Cincinnati, a small professional theatre focused on new works, artistic innovation, and radical welcome. A director, dramaturg, arts advocate, and occasional performer with an eclectic aesthetic shaped by the BFA Acting program at Ohio University and the interdisciplinary MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College, Tamara is now in her sixth season in a leadership position at the Know. At Sarah Lawrence, Tamara had the pleasure of studying with Tony-winning David Neumann (choreographer for Hadestown), director Will Frears, playwrights Francine Volpe and Stuart Spencer, and sound designer Jill Du Boff Lehrman, among many other celebrated faculty members. At Know Theatre, Tamara has directed 12 MainStage productions since 2014, including a world premiere by Kara Lee Corthron and regional premieres by Adam Szymkowicz, Lauren Gunderson, Megan Gogerty, Jenny Connell Davis, and more. 

Tamara’s work has previously been seen at New York Madness, Fringe NYC, Dixon Place, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Tank, The New Ohio, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Ovation Theatre, Ohio Valley Summer Theatre, and ARTS/West. She is a passionate arts advocate who works to ensure that the Know is a welcoming place for all and a playful place to take artistic risks. She and her husband Daniel welcomed their son Jack to the world on March 18, 2018.

Tamara will be providing feedback to the following plays:
A Woog Among the Waves by Steven Strafford (Thurs. 4/22 @ 12:30pm)
A Perfect Day Away by Klae Bainter (Fri. 4/23 @ 4pm)

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Crystal Skillman – 2021 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Crystal Skillman is a four-time NYTimes Critics’ Pick playwright expanding into audio drama and television. You can listen to King Kirby, her episodic audio play written with Fred Van Lente, just released on Broadway Podcast Network about the life of comic book artist Jack Kirby, co-creator of the Marvel Universe or read their comic book Eat Fighter (on WebToon). Crystal is currently writing her scripted audio drama series The Magician’s Magician which will be released with BOOM Integrated/John Marshall Media this fall. She just finished the pilot of her half hour original musical comedy Overnight Success with co-conceiver Lauren Elder and songwriter Regina Stayhorn (Kampfire Films). Theatrically, Crystal is a noted bookwriter of musicals. Her musicals with Bobby Cronin include the award-winning Mary and Max, as well as her play with music Rain and Zoe Save the World, just optioned by DDM Productions/Drew & Dane Productions (Little Shop of Horrors, The Other Josh Cohen), and the animated series Cosmic Critters. Other musicals include Postcard American Town with composer Lynne Shankel (Awarded the 2020-22 SDSU New Musical Initiative), This Show is Money (Civilians R & D Group) with composer Gaby Alter, and A New City (Sam Ratelle). Crystal is the author of plays Geek (Vampire Cowboys) and Open (The Tank Theatre/AFO), She was selected for the 2020-2023 Core Membership at The Playwrights’ Center and her play Pulp Verité was recently featured in their season. Current feature screenplays include Seven Variations on the Same Lover and Drunk Art Love. Crystal has written for Marvel Comics as well as “Adventure Time”

Crystal will be providing feedback to the following play:
Be Head by John Hendel (Fri. 4/23 @ 8pm)

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Stacey Rose – 2021 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Stacey Rose is a Charlotte based, award winning, nationally produced playwright.  Her work celebrates and explores Blackness, Black identity, body politics and the dilemma of life as the “other.” Stacey has held fellowships/residencies with The Arts & Science Council, The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights’ Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Goodman Theatre, The Civilians, and Tofte Lake Center. She’s a recipient of a 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Women’s Commissioning Grant in partnership with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and an Alfred P. Sloan foundation commission in partnership with Manhattan Theatre Club. She is currently a staff writer for 9-1-1 on Fox. Stacey, along with director Martin Damien Wilkins, co-founded the Queen City New Play Initiative to support local and southern playwrights in the creation of new work for the stage. You can follow QCNPI @qcnewplay on Instagram and Twitter and at facebook.com/QueenCityNewPlays.

Stacey will be providing feedback to the following play:
All to Bear in Heaven by Ivan Mosley (Sat. 4/24 @ 4pm)

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Jacquelyn Reingold – 2021 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Jacquelyn Reingold writes for theatre and television. Her plays, which include String Fever, (starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler), I Know, They Float Up, Girl Gone, A Very Very Short Play, 2B (or not 2B), and Acapulco, have been seen in New York at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, Theatre for One, MCC Theatre; at the Actors Theatre in Louisville; Portland Center Stage in Oregon; PlayLabs in Minneapolis; and in London, Dublin, Berlin, and Hong Kong. Honors and awards include: the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, New York Foundation of the Arts playwriting grant, two Sloan Foundation commissions, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize, and MacDowell Fellowships.

She has been published in two Women Playwrights: The Best Plays, several Best American Short Plays, and by Samuel French, Vintage Books, DPS, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus. A collection of her one-acts Things Between Us is published by DPS. Four of her short plays have been recorded for radio/podcast by Playing-on-Air. In television, she is a Writer/Executive Producer for the critically acclaimed “The Good Fight” on Paramount+. She has also written for Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie,” CBS’ “Braindead,” NBC’s “Smash,” and all the Mia episodes for Emmy nominated Gabriel Byrne and Hope Davis in HBO’s “In Treatment.” She is a playwright member of Ensemble Studio Theater, an alum of New Dramatists, and a founding member of Honor Roll, an advocacy group for womxn playwrights over 40 whose goal is inclusion in the theater. She has taught dramatic writing at Ohio University, New York University, and Columbia University. Jacquelyn received her Playwriting MFA from Ohio University.

Jacquelyn will be providing feedback to the following play:
A Perfect Day Away by Klae Bainter (Fri. 4/23 @ 4pm)

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Martine Kei Green-Rogers – 2021 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Martine Kei Green-Rogers is an Associate Professor at SUNY New Paltz, Past President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and the Fellowship Associate at the Playwrights’ Center. Her dramaturgical credits include: The Catastrophist at Marin; He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and The Ohio State Murders at Round House Theatre; The Greatest with the Louisville Orchestra; Four Women Talking About The Man Under The Sheet, and Silent Dancer at Salt Lake Acting Company; Fences and One Man, Two Guvnors at Pioneer Theatre Company; Sweat at the Goodman; productions of King Hedley II, Radio Golf, Five Guys Named Moe, Blues for An Alabama Sky, Gem of the Ocean, Waiting for Godot, Iphigenia at Aulis, Seven Guitars, The Mountaintop, Home, and Porgy and Bess at Court Theatre; Hairspray, The Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, UniSon, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, Comedy of Errors, To Kill A Mockingbird, The African Company Presents Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Fences at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Martine will be responding to every play in the festival! Thank you, Martine!

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Heather Helinsky – 2021 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Heather Helinsky is a freelance dramaturg based in Philadelphia and the current Literary Manager for Playwrights Foundation/Bay Area Playwrights Festival, as well as the Contest Dramaturg (aka Lit Manager) for the 10th Annual Jewish Plays Project. Fifteen years of experience as a professional dramaturg, specifically in the area of new play development and focused on advocating for women playwrights and writers of color. She is an independent dramaturg providing research and analysis, consultation, and workshops to playwrights, directors, theater companies, and college-level education programs. Select theatres where her production dramaturgy was seen: Accessible Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Apothetae, Borderlands, Denver Center, Great Plains Theatre Conference, PA Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical, Pittsburgh Public, Playwrights Realm, Sundance Theatre Lab, Woolly Mammoth, and 6NewPlays in San Francisco, amongst others. Production dramaturgy on notable world premieres: JT Rogers’ Oslo, Tira Palmquist’s Two Degrees, Caridad Svich’s Guapa. She also served as a Barrymore Judge for seasons ‘17/18 and ‘18/19 for Theatre Philadelphia, adjudicating 60-80 professional productions per season in the Philadelphia region. Heather also has a huge heart for mentoring the next generation of dramaturgs and playwrights, and since 2012, has been a guest artist in various capacities for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival and has been a reader for seven years for their David Mark Cohen & Steinberg Award. She has also mentored emerging playwrights through the Kennedy Center’s Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop (’16-‘20) and the VSA’s Discovery Series for emerging writers with disabilities. She also has been a member of the NNPN community of artists-at-large, and has dramaturged twice for their summer MFA Playwrights Workshop. Teaching: Visiting Professor at University of Arizona (’07), Carnegie Mellon (’12), Brooklyn College (’15), Lesley University, and guest workshop at Yale in spring ’19. Training/Awards: M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the A.R.T./Moscow Art/Harvard (’07) and the O’Neill National Critics Institute (’16). Current board member for LMDA as co-VP of Freelance and part of the cohort that created LMDA’s Dramaturging the Phoenix initiative, which supports LMDA’s wider membership of dramaturgs through the pandemic.

Heather will provide feedback to the following play:
To be a Starfish by Wendy-Marie Martin (Thurs. 4/22 @ 4:30pm)

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Julie Felise Dubiner – 2021 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Julie Felise Dubiner (she/her) has freelanced around the country as a dramaturg, consultant, and producer. She was Associate Director of American Revolutions at OSF and resident dramaturg at Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Prince Music Theater. Among her dramaturgy credits are premieres of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, The Copper Children by Karen Zacarías, Between Two Knees by The 1491s, and Party People by Universes. She is co-creator of Rock & Roll: The Reunion Tour, co-author of Process of Dramaturgy, co-editor of several volumes of Humana Festival plays, and a contributor to Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy, Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, Innovation in Five Acts, and other publications and podcasts. Her introductory essay is included in the Bloomsbury edition of I and You by Lauren Gunderson. Julie has served on panels for the Jewish Plays Project, Horton Foote Prize, Playwrights’ Center, and others. She is a mentor for the LMDA Early Career Dramaturg caucus.

Julie will provide feedback for the following plays:
To Be a Starfish by Wendy-Marie Martin (Thurs. 4/22 @ 4:30pm)
what the Gods gave me by Eryn Elyse McVay (Sat. 4/24 @ 12pm)
The Martha Mitchell Effect by Skye Robinson Hillis (Sat. 4/24 @ 8pm)

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Aaron Carter – 2022 PlayFest Mentor

  • April 19, 2021
  • by John Hendel
  • · Mentors/Guest Artists

Aaron Carter is currently a Co-Producer on the upcoming Disney+ series The Crossover, based on the book by Kwame Alexander. Previously, he was an Executive Story Editor on the upcoming Netflix limited series Devil In Ohio.  Aaron also wrote for two seasons on the courtroom drama All Rise, writing or co-writing six episodes. Aaron started his TV work on the writing staff for the limited series The Red Line on CBS. Aaron is currently in development with Amazon, creating a series inspired by the high school rowing documentary A Most Beautiful Thing.


Aaron’s writing focuses on the intersections between race and faith, and is inspired by his lifelong interest in poetry, circus, magic and sci-fi. His plays have been produced and developed at Roundabout, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, TimeLine, and the Lorraine Hansberry Theater, among others. His play Gospel of Franklin was in the 2019 Roundabout Underground reading series. His adaptation of the Walter Dean Myers young adult novel Monster was produced at Steppenwolf. His latest play, Possession, uses ghost story structure to explore racial identity and legacy. Aaron previously worked as an Artistic Producer at Steppenwolf Theater Company where he supported projects such as Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu, and The Minutes by Tracy Letts, both of which went on to Broadway runs.

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COVID-19: Festival Roundtable

  • April 21, 2020
  • by Erik Ramsey
  • · Festival · Mentors/Guest Artists · News · Seabury Quinn, Jr.

OHIO’s 2020 MFA Playwriting
Artistic Roundtable Series

As of April 14, 2020

For the past twenty-five years, the School of Theater at Ohio University has hosted the annual Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwrights Festival celebrating the plays written by the writers in the MFA playwriting program and featuring one-on-one mentorship for our students by nationally recognized playwrights and other leaders in new play development. The recent pandemic has forced us, as well as other theaters and universities around the country, to cancel these plans and explore new ways to give our writers a culminating experience with outside mentors in recognition of their work over the past year. Here’s more about our approach and the schedule of events.

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2019 Festival Information

  • April 25, 2019
  • by Erik Ramsey
  • · Festival · Mentors/Guest Artists · News · Seabury Quinn, Jr.

25th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival

Production Schedule and Mentor Bios


Featured Thesis Productions

Tickets for the Featured Productions are $5 general admission or FREE for OU Students (with valid student ID) through Arts for Ohio; available at the Templeton–Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium box office. 

Sunny Days

by Katherine Varga, directed by Olivia Rocco
8:00 p.m. – April 20th, 24th & 25th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater Stage, Kantner Hall

Life is looking sunny for 17-year-old Carly—well, except for the fights with her mom. Her BFF Mike E and his cool mom just moved in with them. The fandom website she made for her celebrity crush is blowing up. And the mysterious fan she’s been talking to online just might be the object of her affections. The one catch – her crush is a serial killer, and his murders are getting closer to her home. Sunny Days explores the gap between our online and offline selves, the cultural effects of toxic masculinity, and how far women will go to save the people they love.

Sibyl

by Trip Venturella, directed by Alan Patrick Kenny
8:00 p.m. – April 18th & 26th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater, Kantner Hall
2:00 p.m. – April 27th, Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater Stage, Kantner Hall

Two weeks ago, Sibyl, the love of Les’ life, disappeared, and today Les’ job is to interrogate the last person to have seen her alive. Lucky, Les has a Hepatoscope, a device that allows him to plumb the depths of another person’s mind. But minds are tricky places, and, as Les begins to discover, what we call reality can be trickier still. Sibyl is a dark comedy that blurs the lines between memory, fantasy, and truth.

Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer

by Inna Tsyrlin, directed by Anne McAlexander
8:00 p.m. – April 19th & 27th, Elizabeth Baker Theater, Kantner Hall
2:00 p.m. – April 20th, Elizabeth Baker Theater, Kantner Hall

Aleksandra, a political prisoner at a GULAG camp and part of the camp’s theatre troupe, is forced to aid Soviet authorities disguise the existence of the camp in front of a visiting American delegation. She prepares for two roles: the character on stage – Nina from Chekhov’s The Seagull – and the role of an actor who isn’t imprisoned. In the face of totalitarian power, inside and outside the camp, Aleksandra must decide whether to comply with the regime that has taken away her freedom or commit an act of counterrevolution.


STAGED READINGS

Staged readings are free and open to the public.

Bury the Rest

by Skye Robinson Hillis, directed by Rebecca Vernoy
1:00 p.m. – Thursday, April 25th, Forum Theater, RTV Building

Following the death of their 17-year-old daughter Lucy in a mass high school shooting, friendly exes Margot and Colin find themselves at a moral impasse. Though deeply reliant on each other during the grieving process, Colin’s position as a Republican U.S. Senator makes it difficult for Margot and the rest of the family to reconcile the root of their grief with his continued support of the NRA. As they navigate the intimacies of their reforged relationship and rebuild themselves as a family, it may in fact be Lucy who decides their fate.

Here Lies Vivienne Greene

by Liv Matthews, directed by Jeanette L. Buck
4:00 p.m. – Thursday, April 25th, Forum Theater, RTV Building

In 1956, recently certified mortician Vivienne Greene is next in line to inherit the Jackson and Sons Funeral Home from her Uncle Zeke. Before she can take over, Vivienne is presented with one more test mortuary school never prepared her for: after a young boy is brutally attacked, Vivienne must smuggle him out of their small Georgia town before he is found by a local mob. Fearful of losing the funeral home and her own life, Vivienne must look to her past to find that death may be a second chance at life.

The Intermission

by Devin Porter
1:30 p.m. – Friday, April 26th, Forum Theater, RTV Building

What does it mean to be mute? When an African American teenager, Rocky Carter, protects the only thing God has left for him, he goes from almost graduating high school to Dunbar, a super-max. On his birthday, with the help of St. Peter, the oldest security guard in Dunbar, Rocky must earn his birthday present in order to see the love of his life again. Through the process of listening and taking action, Rocky learns that being mute doesn’t mean you’re silent.

The Evolution of Rattlesnakes

by Jean Egdorf, directed by Dusty Brown
3:30 p.m. – Friday, April 26th, Forum Theater, RTV Building

Rattlesnakes are evolving to lose their rattles. Man has spent so long wiping out the ones that make noise, it’s become a better defense mechanism to remain silent. Denni Erwine is arrested for the murder of the Drybrook County Sheriff. According to their statements, she only struck back against the Sheriff in defense of her neighbor, Louisa Trelawney, but there is more coiled up in the case than either woman is willing to say. To prevent it from striking more than once, is there only one way to deal with a venomous snake?

The Christmas Special

by John Hendel
1:00 p.m. – Saturday, April 27th, Forum Theater, RTV Building

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the cabin,
Barbara was asking, “What exactly will happen?”
Her husband was giving his life up to Claus,
But Barbara was left there without any cause
Then what in her is’lated world did appear?
The son she gave up in a moment of fear!
He’s handsome and famous, and possibly could
Whisk Babs away to old Hollywood
But hubby is slavish to the plan that they made,
“You must be devoted to Santa’s crusade!”
Will Barbara decide that her son’s the solution
Or will she stay true to the revolution?

To Saints and Stars

by Jordan Ramirez Puckett, directed by Shelley Delaney
4:00 p.m. – Saturday April 27th, Forum Theater, RTV Building

10-all astronauts prepare for launch… 9-months and Zoe will be a mother… 8-years old, a promise we never wanted to break… 7-months, my one way ticket to Mars… 6-million hours staring up at the stars… 5-seconds left until launch… 4- years old when we first met… 3- decades of friendship and love… 2-peas in a pod until… 1-mission liftoff

In To Saints and Stars, Sofía’s life flashes before her eyes. In the face of almost certain death on the first manned mission to Mars, Sofía re-examines her lifelong friendship with Zoe and the age old conflict between science and faith.


Guest Artists In Residence

Each April, three nationally recognized, industry professional guest artists are invited to be in residence for the Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival to respond to the MFA plays and work with the MFA playwrights.

We are pleased to announce the guest artists joining us for the 2019 Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival:

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Nan Barnett is a new play developer, producer, and advocate, and is the Executive Director of National New Play Network, an alliance of more than 120 professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays and model a robust, equitable, and inclusive new play ecosystem. During her previous tenures as a member of the Network’s Board, Executive Committee, and President she helped create and implement several of the organization’s revolutionary initiatives, including the acclaimed NNPN Rolling World Premiere, Residency, and National Directors Fellows programs, Nan has led the organization through the development and launch of its field-altering database, the New Play Exchange, now home to more than 25,000 plays by living writers, and its recent planning process which will dramatically evolve its governance structure to accelerate its diversification. Prior to joining NNPN full-time Nan was a founding company member and the long-time Managing Director of Florida Stage, the nation’s largest regional theater producing exclusively new and developing plays and musicals, where during 24 seasons she oversaw the development and production of hundreds of new plays and musicals for both emerging and veteran playwrights. She was a member of DC’s inaugural Helen Hayes Awards’ New Play Panel is on the Artistic Councils of O’Neill Theater Center and PlayPenn and was inducted into the National Theatre Conference in 2017. Nan was also the Coordinating Producer for the 2015 and 2018 iterations of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival in the nation’s capital region, where NNPN is based.

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Martine Kei Green-Rogers is an Assistant Professor at SUNY: New Paltz, a freelance dramaturg, and the President of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Her dramaturgical credits include: The Greatest with the Louisville Orchestra, Fences and One Man, Two Guvnors at Pioneer Theatre Company; Clearing Bombs and Nothing Personal at Plan-B Theatre; the Classical Theatre Company’s productions of Uncle Vanya, Antigone, Candida, Ghosts, Tartuffe, and Shylock, The Jew of Venice; Sweat at the Goodman; productions of Radio Golf, Five Guys Named Moe, Blues for An Alabama Sky, Gem of the Ocean, Waiting for Godot, Iphigenia at Aulis, Seven Guitars, The Mountaintop, Home, and Porgy and Bess at the Court Theatre; The Clean House at CATCO; Hairspray, The Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, UniSon, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, Comedy of Errors, To Kill A Mockingbird, The African Company Presents Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Fences at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; 10 Perfect and The Curious Walk of the Salamander as part of the 2006 and 2007 Madison Repertory Theatre’s New Play Festival; and A Thousand Words as part of the 2008 WI Wrights New Play Festival. She also works with the Great Plains Theatre Conference and is affiliated with NNPN.

Jacqueline Lawton 13, Photo by Jason HornickJacqueline E. Lawton is a playwright, dramaturg, producer, and advocate for Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the American Theatre. Her plays include: Among These Wild Things, Anna K; Blackbirds, Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful; The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; The Inferior Sex, Intelligence; Love Brothers Serenade; Mad Breed; and Noms de Guerre. Lawton has worked as a dramaturg and research consultant at Active Cultures, Actors Theatre of Louisville – Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Arden Theater (Philadelphia, PA), Arena Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Discovery Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater (New York, NY) Folger Shakespeare Library, the Ford’s Theatre, Horizons Theater (Atlanta, GA), Howard University, the Hub Theatre, Interact Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), Kennedy Center VSA Program, Morgan State University, Redshift Productions (New York, NY), Rorschach Theater Company, Round House Theatre, Theater Alliance, Theater of the First Amendment, Theater J, Tribute Productions, University of Maryland, Virginia Stage Company, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Currently, she is a Dramaturg at PlayMakers Repertory. Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient and an alum of National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alum, Arena Stage’s Playwrights’ Arena, and Center Stage’s Playwrights Collective. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company. She is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America and is their NC Regional Rep.

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